Magnetotail electric fields observed from lunar orbit

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Aug 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jgr....80.3217m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 80, Aug. 1, 1975, p. 3217-3224.

Physics

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Electric Fields, Electron Flux Density, Geomagnetic Tail, Lunar Orbits, Apollo Flights, Auroral Zones, Convection, Electron Energy

Scientific paper

Direct observations of convection electric fields in the earth's magnetotail are reported. The electric fields have been measured from lunar orbit by detection of the E x B/B-squared drift displacement of low-energy electrons at the limb of the moon. It is found that electric fields range in magnitude from a value less than or equal to 0.02 mV/m, the limit of sensitivity of the method, to 2 mV/M. The typical value is 0.15 mV/M, and the corresponding convection velocity is 15 km/s. The sense of the electric field is almost always dawn to dusk. The electric field is often variable on a time scale of hours and sometimes minutes. The observations indicate that the electric field is not uniform across the magnetotail. If it is assumed that the typical measured electric-field value represents an average over the inhomogeneities, the potential drop across the entire tail is of the order of 40 kV.

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